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Fifteen years ago Casey Stengel, then manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, took a quick look at a skinny little kid who claimed to be a shortstop. Casey gave the youngster a blunt piece of advice: "Go peddle your papers, Shorty, you're too small ever to become a major-leaguer...
...Marty Marion, nor the rifle arm of the Red Sox's Vern Stephens. But Rizzuto learned to scoot around his short-field like a hopped-up water bug, to make throws from any position short of standing on his head. Within five years after Stengel's blunt advice, the "Scooter" had nailed down the shortstop job with the New York Yankees...
...fanned. Since his twelve years in the Senate were a matter of public record, they were wide open to the scrutiny of his enemies. The C.I.O. kept a staff of men busy combing the Congressional Record for ammunition. Taft's lofty scorn for half-baked ideas, his blunt honesty, his long rear-guard battle against the charging revolution of the New Deal, his stubbornness, his querulous isolationism (which had a way of popping up again just when everybody thought he had overcome it), all could be turned around and used against...
Sherman H. Hawkins '51, director of the production, yesterday announced the following cast: King Henry, Warren Brody '52; Prince Hal, Sherman H. Hawkins '51; Blunt, Peter S. Capersares '52; Worcester, Joseph S. Ullian...
...trousers to each new recruit-simply because it thought that Marines got six pairs apiece. Not until two years ago did the Army learn that the Marines issued only three pairs -and that many an Army recruit threw at least three of his six pairs away. Faced with this blunt fact, the Army forthwith halved its issue. Said the Hoover Commission: "The military services are far too prodigal with Government funds...